however last year the bengals ran all over the purple and black and the main culprit was benson. cincinnati running back pounded the ravens for 2 37 yards in two meetings with the leif instant -- ravens last úear and carried it 61 times helpiig the bengals control the ball for almost 30 more interests minntes than the benson?s. so how do they stop be as patient as he is. >> we have to make sure we stay in our gap to keep him containedd. he's very, very patient runner. reed the key. read the whole and cut back inside so i mean i just think really kind of created fors him. the way thhy runnthat. so defensively we have to stay in the game. >>reporter: orioles open 3 game home series with the yankees. patterson travels to south west in football for high school game of the week and i go one-on-one in ravens quurterback washington. all coming up tonight at 10:50 on sports unlimited. bbck to you. >> thanks kristen. well it looks like weeare in for good weather. -ú>> ttat's always good news. emily rejoins with sky wwtch forecast. emily how goodies it going to get. >> beautiful out ther

jackie benson, news 4 today. >>> this morning we are following a developing story out ofafghanistan. nine international calition service members are dead after a helicopter crash in afghanistan. nato says two others were injured in the crash, including a u.s. citizen. officials have not released the cause of the crash but there were no reports of enemy fire in that area. the deaths bring the number of international troops killed this month in the country to 32. >>> time is 5:07. 57 degrees outside. chilly out there. a local library worries about book not book worms but bedbugs. >>> and the forecast on this tuesday morning manipulate a illy one. >>> weather and traffic on this tuesday morning. good morning. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. sky camera looking off to the west. upper level wind at 300 feet. and the nearly full moon is now setting in the western sky. pumpkin colored moon at this hour. right now it's in the upper 50s in washinon. near 60 by the way. elsewhere, near 50 in prince george's. 40s in montgomery and fairfax couny. many areas in the 40s this morning. we sould warm t

jackie benson has the details. >>reporter: the 21-year-old victim told police she was walking alone early sunday morning on this very dark stretch of route 355 south of high point drive. >> we knowhe had been socializing with friends in germantown, and it was her plan to walk to 7-eleven to meet another friend. >> reporter: there is a sidewalk, but streetlights are sd few and far between. >> she was attacked from an unknown man who grabbed her, took her into the woods and sually assaulted her. she did attempt to fight off her attacker. she did sustain minor injuries during that resistance. >> reporter: police say after the attack thwoman was able to get to the 7-eleven a short distance away on profesonal drive and call for help. the neighborhood enjoys a very low crime rate. women we spoke to were surprised by news of the assault. >> i work in this area. >> i think around the bus stops you have to be careful a little bit. but anywhere you go you should be careful. >> report: because it was dark the woman was not ab

jackie benson has more on the disturng and baffling crime. >> repoer: autos crime scene technicians fingerprinted the doorway leading to the stirwell, investigators tried to piece together a brutal crime. two separate 911 calls sent police officers to the gates of sip an know gard apartments in green belt at 2:00 p.m. one said there was a woman in the stairwell and she appeared to be very badly injured. >> they located the woman who was suffering trauma to her body. they transported her at that point to a local hospital where a doctor pronounced her dead at approximately 3:20 this afternoon. >> reporter: anher 911 call reported a shooting. but it's not clear whether that calleheard gunshots or assumed she had been shot based on her appearance. tree trimmers who were working 50 feet away from the doorway when the crime occued. it's not clear whether they were able to provide a description. in an apartment near the entry door they located a darkreen honda sedan. they believ

jackie benson reports. >> reporter: detectives investigating served a search warrant in the 1200 block of girard street. a police crane towed a tan-colored sedan. the home is one block from where a man was taken into custody not long after the shooting. his status is not known. earlier, around 12:30 p.m., chaos enveloped u street northwest, one of the busiest commercial areas in the c

jack j benson reports. >> reporter: june fire at this town house in virginia, firefighters entered the home next door to determine if the blaze had spread. there they made a disturbing discovery. photos spread out on a table. >> they found what they believed to be suspected child pornography. they notified the police department. >> at fist we thought it might have been hoarding. >> at least one noticed an unusual level of police activity. >> we saw a bunch of lice going in there. a bunch were sitting here, waiting and waiting and waiting and they came out with prably seven to nine boxes of stuff. >> after a 3-month-old long, a warrant was issued charging him wi 10 counts of child pornography.

. >> recently the commissioner of the wac, carl benson announced that fresno state and nevada must pay $5 million each for failing to abide by an agreement that said both schools must stay in the wac in the 2016. not all football teams had the opportunity to open their own against the defending national champions. but san jose state about just that. >> fans of the crimson tide had one thing in mind. winning. 200 san jose state fans came to cheer on the spartans. >> a good game, by both teams. i think alabama of course is a super team but san jose state, we are going to do better than people think. >> a banner was signed and should travel with the team in hopes of about luck. the spartans and crimson tide were ready for the start of the game. the tide started strong with scoring a touchdown on their first drive and the spartans did the same but that would be their only points of the game. the final score was alabama 48 and san jose 3. despite the loss. the coach saw the fight in the team. third quarter was not that good of course. but they kept fighting and there's not a tired guy in th

jackie benson, 4:nbc news. >>> here comes another surge. looking at the radar over the last three hours mainly into our western suburbs. moderate to heavy rain. we also have some indication maybe some circulation aloft has the leading edge moves into western fairfax, loudon county. gusty winds may cause tree limbs to come in. we see that area of yellow. that's the heaviest rain. that's just moving out of culpepp culpepper. that's heading up towards prince william. maybe another half hour or so should be in fairfax county, loudon county, wst of washington. right now temperatures are in the 60s to near 70 degrees. and we do have more rain, another surge perhaps coming in another couple hours from the south and the metro ara. chanceor flooding this morning. highs near 80. tomorrow, increasing clouds. more rain tomorrow afternoon and evening. jerry, how is the traffic? >>> at the moment it is relatively quiet, which is good news. here's another angle on route 66 in manassas. road spray. potential of slick roadways this morning. of course we'll

our team coverage continues too with jackie benson, she's on u street with more. jackie? >> doreen, we want to show what you it looks like here at the scene as this is one of the reasons this area has been shut down for some six hours now, police are in the process of towing and crime scene technicians are examining a vehicle, one of several in a has bullet holes in it as a result of this shooting. police are starting to breakdown the perimeter that has paralyzed therea fomuch of the afternoon. more much of the afternoon, busy u street northwest was closed off by yellow police tape. the shooting and resulting chaos after a nearby funeral happened in the middle of one of the city's busiest commercial areas. thousan live here, thousands more come here to eat and work every day. they are shaken. >> u street has come a long way, unfortunately, we have a little ways left to go. no vehicle traffic was permitted from 14th to 14th streets. no one was even allowed to walk on the sidewalk in the 1200 block of u street as police conducted a murder investigation. inside the perimeter

. >> reporter: jackie benson, news 4 today. >>> police arrested a second man in connection with one of the recent robberies in college park. 21-year-old al drew hilloff was one of three men who robbed several people at gunpoint on the 7200 block of baltimore avenue augu 8th. police released this surveillance tape showing him in the blue shirt and another suspect shortly after the robbery. he turned himself in on sunday. police arrested 19-year-old shaw last week in connection with the same robbery. >>> 4:31 our time now. let's get fist look at weather andraffic for this tuesday morning. here's tom. >> we need a sweater or jacket. >> did thing grandma chopped the wood. we have wood stoves going in southern pennsylvania, west virginia. it's down into the 40s. frederick, 46 degrees in maryland. manassas, 46. dulles, only 50 degrees. near 50 in prince george's county. near 60 in waington and near the bay. elsewhe, we have temperatures in the 40s in west virginia, much of western maryland and pennsylvania. and on the eastern shore, the low 50s right now awa from the waters. so quite a cool

jack benson outside the house he shared th his ailing mother. >> reporter: this was the last person they would expect to do something like this according to neighbors. by night fall, arlingn, virginia, police officers were talking to neighbors on south kenmoore street, where the john hopkins gunman, 54-year-old john partis harland, lived with his mother. >> he took excellent care of his mother. >> reporter: neighbors reacted with shock. they said they frequently saw him coming and going from the green bungalow as he cared for his mother. 84-year-old jean davis who suffered from alzheimers and other illnesses. >> he lived with his mother and then stayed with the hospital when she became ill. it's so hard for me to believe. >> she made appointments forher to go to the beauty shop >> rerter: he worked for a metro axis driver. in june,he took family leave, presumablely to care for his mother, which neighbors say he did with great devotion. >> every day he would come home. take her to contract, every day. i took her to the nursing thing or whatever. i can't believe he shot her. oh, can believ

[applause] >> commissioners and members of the public, brad benson, special projects. there are just a handful of people who have had such an input -- impact on us. it is really amazing. i have had the luxury to be able to work with you closely on many of the project -- i've not had the luxury of being able to work closely with you on many of the products you've undertaken, but i have been watching closely. for the public, the development projects -- they are obviously works of art. it is also enormously complicated, all the entitlements, and they are released herculean efforts that stretched over years, and the way you are able to grab all of that information can be on top of all of it and marshallese projects to final completion is just stunning. so great works of art already accomplished. we look forward to seeing the next work of art, and we really hope we can continue to pick your brain over time, so thank you so much. [applause] >> grace park, a deputy city attorney. i had the pleasure and honor of working with jennifer for about five years now on exploratory and

however, last year, the bengals ran all over the pprple and black,,and the main culprit was benson. the cincinnati running back in two meetings with the ravens he carried t 61 times. helping the bengals control the ball forralmost 30 more minutes than the rrvenn. so how do they stop him? be as patient as he is. >> we have to make sure we stay in our gaps to keep him contained. he is patient and stutters a lot %-zone team they have got.he really is, you know, kind of creative for him. the way they run that. as farras defensively, we have to, you know, ttack. >> to baseball, where the -rioles named britain minor league pitcher, of the yeaa and mahoney minor league player of the year. now to the game. impact in the east. hosting the 2nd place yankeess second. and he takes kevin millwood deep, left center. hello pitchers. in theebullpen. right in the bullpen. solo shot. his 4th. o's accidentally shot off fireworks after the homer. yankees up. and game tied at one. adams jones smacked right there. -randerssn can watcc it as it leaves the yard. his 19 home run. tying a career high. gives

. >> reporter: sandra benson of concorde refused to allow a pg and e crew to install a second smart meter on her home. >> i already had enough trouble with the first one and didn't want to try and have a second one installed. >> reporter: both families are part of scattered individual protests taking place in the pg and e service area. their stories are similar. their electricity usage tripled after getting her smart meter and her bill jumped from $80 to $480. pg and e told her there was nothing wrong with her smart meter. >> why you went up without any logical reason? >> sandra had a similar experience when hers doubled after pg and e put in her smart meter. >> why think anything of it until we got our bill for january services, which had gone from $206 to $670. >> reporter: pg and e at first told her not to pay the disputed bill while it investigated. the utility says it subsequently put her on a four-month payment plan when her bill hit $1,300. the two months into her four-month payment plan and pg and e sent her this notice, threatening to shut off her power. >> so we immediately paid

we built this skin that's on the building in benson's yard in portland. and, you know, we were dish think it was a very different building, it was a very exceptional building, it would have been very unique and finally after a year and a half dean came back and said, look, you know, because of the way the downtown plan is written, we need something that is much more compliant with the downtown plan. ok? so we stopped, we redesigned the building, we came to the department with a building where there were seven different masses. we had a whole series, rather than three masses we had seven. and that had -- so, with each one the skin ran the opposite direction. it was a much more rich, articulate form from my perspective. but again, after months of working with john, john comes to my office one day, kind of his head in his hands, he says, we can't do this. we can't support this. it has to be more compliant with the code. we have, within reason, designed this building as compliant with the code as we can possibly do and do a 350-foot-high building. we conforme

. >> jackie benson, news 4, today. >> he is a fire fighter, and has been play placed on administrative leave. >> a store inside the frannis scott key mall started celling a t-shirt, supporting the arizona stance of immigration. some thought it was offensive. the mall told them to not seing the shirts. last night, the management said the letter was a mistake and should not have been sent. >> it fls like summer is not over yet. >> good au it. umn has been cooled. some of the red maples, already beginning to showcolor. live view, as you see, northwest, washington. way off on the horizon, son's corner. regan national, elsewhere to the beaches, and this mild continue will continue, and tomorrow, warping things up. many locations got down to ar 40. western maryland and virginia. now back in the 60s to near 70. and the green zone is in the 50s in many locations. high pressure, pushing down from eastern canada. meantime, across the nation, a front through the miwest. the front may get close to us on thursday, may give us a passing shower. rockies cleared out. lookat this picture from the centr

i remember on good friday, at holy redeemer, the nun was sister mary benson, and we had gone to morning mass and we were falling out of the church and white kids across the street, k,ich was a white only par started calling sister vincent a. nigger lover. we took offense to that. we got into fisticuffs with them. we thought that we were heroes. we got to the classroom and she told us how disappointed in us she was. that we have learned none of the teachings of the church, nothing about forgiveness, nothing about turning the other cheek, that we behave as hooligans first and catholics second. >> when we first asked you to come to the interview, we were talking about twqo things. the automobile stuff and the kidney operation. >> it is like i tell -- i have had to kidney transplants. a wonderful colleague of mine, martha mcneil hamilton, both transplants are still functioning in me. it has taught me that you have to try to take a vantage of light-ticket manager of life now. -- take a bandage of life now. -- advantage of life now. without going through pain, i do not regret it. >> go back.

news 4's jackie benson reports. >> reporter: detectives investigating served a search warrant in the 1200 block of girard street. they appeared paper evidence and a shotgun case. a police crane towed a tan-colored sedan. a vehicle that fits the description that witnesses say fleed the scene. the home is one block from where a man s taken into custody not long after the shooting. his status is not known. earlier, around 12:30 p.m., chaos enveloped u street northwest, one of the busiest commercial areas in the city. as mourners were leaving walker memorial baptist church for the funeral of 21-year-old ashley mccray, shot to death last week in washington, another shooting happened near the cars lined up to participate in the neral procession. a car pulled up and opened fire in an suv with three men inside. it took off down u street, side-swiped two cars, hit a verizon truck and flipped. one was killed. jamal coates. the minister who officiated claims coates and the victims had not been inside the church for service. >> two separate incidents. and i want it to be known. >> reporter: at l

. >> reporter: benson's coworker alejadro besero was on the other side, closest to where the landing gear malfunctioned. the pilot safely brought it to a stop. the passengers were hurried off the plane. >> nerves are. >> reporter: filing past police and especially trained firefighters who were at the ready but not needed. no fire and no injuries. >> could have been bad and it turned out to be a very smooth landing. >> every day is a fresh start. every day is a new day. >> reporter: that was dave collins reporting, delta airlines is now working with faa investigators find out what went wrong with the landing gear. >> if you're waiting for someone to come home. let's check in on the traffic. >> if you're traveling on the north side of the interloop, we do have an accident. as far as the west side goes, 20 minutes drive time, 95 to security boulevard. northbound 83 crash to look for at middleton road. northbound 95 still sluggish activity there. average speed about 30 miles per hour. now let's take a live look you can see the belt way pretty heavy there at bellini road. this traffic rep

. >> jackie benson is live on the scene with details of a woman shot and killed. what have you learned? >> prince georges county polce are here on the scene. homicide investigators are here, as well as crime scene technicians. this woman may have been shot in the parking lot, there is an extensiveection of this parking lot at this complex here in the 8500 block of greenbelt road. an extensive section, yellow taped off by police. we understand the woman collapsed inside that building. we're told she's in her 30s. and the medical examiner is hre on the scene. this incident may have been witnessed by tree trimmers passing through the area at the time. i don't know if they were working here, but a numbe of them are being questioned by police. police are hoping they saw the gunman, the asail an in the this case who has peared -- is not here on the scene. i believe at is time, police are trying to figure out if anyone can describe this man. if they saw a vehicle -- if it is indeed a vehicle. if they saw a vehicle associated with this, anything. this investigation is in

. >>> our team coverage continues now with jkie benson live on u street where all those restaurants and stores have been virtually decertificated since this violence erupted. >> reporter: we're going to show you what it looks like here. this is what if looks like all around the utreet area right now. police officers are directing traffic trying to get people around this area. as can you see, up facing 13th street at u, is desserted at this point. for much of the afternoon u street has been closed to all vehicle traffic from th street to 12th street ando all foot traffic from 13th to 12th. now inside that perimeter are doze of the city's most popular bars and restaurants, all of which normally see a brisk lunch and happy hour business. they've been closed for about ve hours now. so they're normally very busy, but not today. >> few customers, just because the kitchen and street are closed. unfortunately, i guess because of the shooting. >> usually 1,000 people walking up and down, driving up and down. >> merchants tell us they are extremely compassionate. they understand the reason for th

. >> comedian and marijuana user doug benson stars in "super high me" a movie that chronicles his pot smoking for 30 straight days. >> i agree that if you feel like it helps you in your life and makes you feel better, whether it's anxiety or depression or, you know, you just like it, i don't see why you shouldn't have access to it. >> when it came to defining who should have access to it, proposition 215, the 1996 ballot initiative that decriminalized medical marijuana in california purposely left things vague. >> it listed approximately ten conditions but then it said or any condition agreed upon by the physician and the patient where cannibus could be helpful. that leaves it between the doctor and the patient which is where it belongs. >> dr. alan frankel practiced internal medicine for 26 years before dedicating 80% of his practice to medical marijuana. in over two years, he says, he saw 3,400 patients. the average age? close to 50. >> some of these patients are, you know, ceos, there's not one demographic. i mean, we have all the data. it's from everywhere, every income group, eve

bill kristol invoked lloyd benson and dan quayle, quoting kristol, i know sarah palin. i respect sarah palin. and with all due respect, christine o'donnell is no sarah palin. just to clarify, he meant that as an insult. joining me now haired fineman, political columnist and msnbc political analyst. we've got to keep you cleared. >> thank you. >> mitch mcconnell on this network today said he would support either candidate that comes out of delaware. will republicans spend money in delaware if christine o'donnell is that delegate? >> yes, they'll have to, keith. i was there this afternoon. i was at a polling place in an elementary school in newark, delaware. and trying to talk to voters as they came out of the polls. and i found it pretty evenly split in what was a pretty establishment-oriented neighborhood. pretty evenly politic between castle and o'donnell, which i think is now reflected in the results that you see. she came out of nowhere. and i think that the republicans knowing the numbers in the senate, wanting that seat will grit their teeth and support her down th

rita benson leblanc is the part owner and executive vice president of the saints. nice to see you, rita. >> nice to be here. thank you for being here. >> we're thrilled to be here. let me read you some descriptions i read about you. batten down the hatches, one of the most powerful women in professional sports and the youngest, sassiest and sexiest owner of an nfl franchise. how do you plead? >> i guess guilty. i learned from my grandfather. so he's an older version, but from new orleans, we dance, we laugh, everything we live through here, but especially winning the super bowl. there was nothing that brought my family greater pleasure than to bring that super bowl victory back to the city of new orleans. >> you get a lot of attention for a lot of reasons. is it a good thing for women and football? >> i think so. i think any attention is channeled in a positive way. so obviously, we use this incredible kickoff to showcase new orleans' economic development, everything that's happening in louisiana and the greater gulf south region. obviously we've had the issues wit

he has benson continue use observation or suicide watch since the first dave he walked in. then it was a july day in 2008 when he was sitting three feet from hayes that he overheard hayes telling his neighbor about the home invasion, facts that had dr. petit and family grasping their seats, hands to mouth. he did sodomize 11-year-old makayla then poured gas on her. hayes considered it possible dr. petit was in on the crime since he got loose. and he told hayes he had to kill mrs. petit and hayes didn't know if he could. then a statement that hayes said he saw police pull up to the house, then killed her. expert witnesses went through the scene in excruiating detail. the fire investigator inves -- y heard and saw how the blaze spread. the investigator said rapidly and in a violent manner. the conclusion was the fire was started by human hands using a liquid accelerant consistent with gas. then taking just seconds to reach the girls' bed vooms upstairs. martha: that's hard to listen to what that family has been through in that courthouse. outside this courthouse the reaction

lieutenant colonel benson commands the sowts and knows how important it is to stay on mission. >> early on, we had guys in iraq taking weather specs and getting them back. weather cleared up for a brief period. time. 1,000 guys were able to exit the aircraft and fland a place called basher air field and on they went. >> reporter: don't refer to them as just a weatherman. >> to be call just a weatherman gets under your skin but once you're in a position to prove yourself, they realize, this guy isn't just a weather guy. he's a special operations weatherman, and he's a soldier. >> i know what he means about not wanting to be called just a weatherman, but i'm not out there with guns and serving and protecting our country. these guys, kyra, there's less than 100 of them. they have one of the highest deployment rates in the military. they go out all of the time, seemingly, and over the 60 or 70 year history wince world war ii, they have 88 to lose a man. >> how are these guys deployed, as a group or individually? >> usual lif individually and sometimes with two-man teams, but they are linked

. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel benson commands the sowts and knows how important the training is. >> early on in the iraq campaign, we had guys up in northern iraq and taking weather observations and passing them back to 16 aircraft that were about to deliver about 1,000 paratroopers. weather cleared up for a brief period of time, 1,000 guys were able to land. >> reporter: don't refer to them as just the weatherman. >> to be called just the weatherman gets under your skin but once you're put in a situation to prove yourself when the weather is on the line, that's when they realize, hey, this guy isn't just a weather guy. he's a special operations weatherman and a soldier. >> don, you know how upset i get when you refer to me as just the weatherman but i'm not out there protecting our country and doing the special opposites. there are less than 100. they have one of the highest deployment rates in the military and since they have been doing it since world war ii, they have yet to lose a man. >> but the truth hurts sometimes. >> it does. >> how do they deploy? >> interestingly, they

author michael benson wrote a book about the crime. >> i can't see giving any blame whatsoever to the policemen. the blame belongs to those two men. >> reporter: jurors were shown graphic pictures from inside the charred pettitte home including gruesome photos of the bodies. for the first time, william pettitte broke down in tears and the jury so upset they were sent home early. >> i think the one that really upset the jurors the most was mikaila bound to the bed. got herself twisted up and trying to escape. a beautiful little girl whose end was so very, very horrible. unthinkably horrible. >> reporter: the two girls died of smoke inhalation. jennifer raped and strangled. i was in the courtroom when jurors got a chance to look at those horrific crime scene pictures. they were so emotional and so disturbing that jurors were, in fact, brought to tears. harry? >> betty in new haven, connecticut, this morning, thank you. >>> joining us is legal analyst jack ford. good morning. >> good to see you, harry. >> former prosecutor. five capital murder cases that you prosecuted in your history. p

lieutenant colonel joe benson commands the combat weather squadron. how important is what you guys do to the overall mission? >> most of what we do is the collection part of weather. in other words, we go out into places that are either hostile and inaccessible to other troops and we go and collect weather observations. we go and assess a river condition. we do terrain. >> reporter: sometimes getting there requires a parachute. >> this is the main? >> don't pull that. >> reporter: what's this? >> that's the reserve. >> reporter: loaded into the back of a c-130 are 18 special operations weather soldiers. you you want an accurate forecast on the battlefield, sometimes you have to jump out of a plane. >> are you guys ready back there? >> we're ready. >> reporter: one minute before they go out the back door, i legally can't jump and i'm not disappointed about that. with the static line guys out at 2500 feet, we climb higher, and the spotters eye the next drop zone. six weather jumpers left at 10,000 feet. they jump free fall. they get weather forecasts be

lieutenant joe benson controls the squadron. how important is what you do to the mission? >> most what if we do is the collection part of weather. in other words, we go out into places that are either hostile, inaccessible to other troops and we collect weather observations, we'll go and we'll assess a river condition, we'll do terrain. >> sometimes getting there requires a parachute. >> this is the main. >> don't pull that. that's reserve. >> loaded into the back are 18 special operations weather soldiers, you want accurate forecast of the battlefield, sometimes you got to jump out of a plane. >> are you ready back there? okay. >> one minute before they go out the back door. i legally can't jump. not disappointed about that. >> all clear. >> with the static line guys out at 2500 feet we climb higher and the spotters eye the next drop zone. >> six weather jumpers left. these are going free fall. they can go as high as 30. the forecast behind enemy lines, they are the ones to do it. >> you guys rock. what comes next is an adrenalin-filled minute falling as fast as 200 miles

it is once these things fail, it caused all of these things to go to zero, and the reason benson vested in them, like anybody else. somebody across the street is getting a competitive edge, an extra 2% or 3% for investing in these derivative instruments, every quarter you are going to get hit on a quarterly earnings because you are not getting the extra income for your company. it is a lack of not having a market to trade these derivatives. and the lack of regulation that caused this. it is not bankers are stupid or some grand conspiracy. that is really what occurred. host: thank you for your call from gaithersburg. that is the last one of our discussion on to big to fail. we are going to take a break and when we come back we will have two guests at the table will get their perspectives of the opening of direct talks after 20 months between the israelis and palestinians. we will be right back. >> there is nothing about finance that is rocket science. this is probably the most frustrating thing for me about how -- you think about ponzis teams, the biggest ponzi scheme for wall street is

benson time over the pentagon later that year after he was killed. later on we found out exactly what he had done. it was an emotional time, of course. we knew that he with that kind of person. when i was up there accepting that medal of honor, again a very emotional time. i was thinking back to the days when dad would say to me, whenever i would go somewhere, you're an expert in your part of the air force. that is what i thought. to date. that helped me up there. >> if your father were here today, what you think you would say? >> my dad would be very humble about this. he impressed us as kid, when you have a job to do, he was that kind of person. a lot of the things that we did, it was very particular about. he would be here saying, alice is doing my job. his men.r i we were right. during the vietnam war, and he was very much giving. i think it would be humbled but proud of his achievement. >> we were told that he had very little combat training. he had just learned that a use a weapon. >> i talked to somebody yesterday about that. i have never seen

. >> reporter: lieutenant colonel benson mancommands them. >> early on in the iraq campaign we had guys up in northern iraq taking weather observations and passing them back to 16 aircraft about to deliver 1,000 paratroopers. weather cleared up for a brief period of time. 1,000 guys exit the aircraft and land up in a place and on with the mission they went. >> reporter: don't refer to them as just the weather men. >> to be called just a weatherman gets under your skin a little bit and once you're in a situation the prove yourself and the weather call is on the line, that's whenever they realize, hey, this guy isn't just the weather guy. he's a special operations weatherman. >> transfer. >> he's a soldier. >> yeah. being called just a weatherman gets under my skin but i'm not killing people, protecting our country. they have one of the highest deployment rates in the military and they've been doing this since world war ii and throughout the missions and mini tours, a month to three months out with the guys an yet to lose one. that's an amazing figure. >> great track record. do the other

we talked about since richard benson. remember opec? 1973. remember the lines of the gas station? every president has said this is a national security issue and a crisis. we don't do anything about it. my suggestion is left to join hands, democrats and republicans, and take the lead and try to solve this problem. there is not a silver bullet or one magic solution to our energy problems. we will have to use a bunch of different strategies. i already mentioned efficiency. that has to be a huge push. with respect to transportation, one thing we did without legislation, nobody has noticed this but this is huge -- we increase fuel efficiency standards on cars for the first time in 30 years, cars and trucks. we got the car companies and autoworkers to agree to it not just environmentalists. that will help. we have to look at nuclear energy. historically, many environmentalists say they do not like nuclear energy. there are problems with stores but we're concerned about global warming greenhouse gases, nuclear energy is a legitimate energy source that the japanese and the french have bee